In this Berlin Experiment, Austrian-born Maria Zastrow describes how she escaped to Berlin’s liberating 1980s punk community and became embedded in its lively bar scene, which counted local heroes like Einstürzende Neubauten as well as international stars like David Bowie and Michel Foucault among its constituents. In 1981, when I was 16, my parents let

Let’s delve deep into the basements from bygone eras when techno was barely conceived and house was young and blossoming with a series of tapes recorded at Front, a legendary Hamburg nightclub that operated between 1983 and 1997. It was one of the first such clubs in Germany, so these mixes are historical documents. Have a listen and feel

For a techno artist of his years and experience, Anthony Child caught the modular bug late. „I wasn’t really that interested in it because it seemed like you had to spend thousands of pounds to make a very basic kind of ‚clip-clop‘ sound, and that didn’t really appeal to me,“ he once told XLR8R. But

You know the sound. Listen to Devo’s “Whip It” or Parliament’s “Flash Light.” Like countless modern pop songs, they’re full of sounds that aren’t made by acoustic instruments; the sound is pure synthetic. You’re listening to electricity manipulated by a machine. The machine of course is the synthesizer, and it’s been one of the most